Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gabriel took over John Coffin 's neglected cup and began to drink it in anxious little sips . |
| 32 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 33 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
| 34 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 35 | Then , abruptly , without a word , he turned away , picked up a piece of copy , and began to correct it with short , violent strokes and swirls of his pen . |
| 36 | overworking you and failing to provide you with reasonable support ; |
| 37 | The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents . |
| 38 | When Mr Prescott first backed off standing against Roy Hattersley for the deputy leadership last year , and then changed his mind and decided to contest it after all , Neil Kinnock expressed unrestrained irritation . |
| 39 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 40 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |
| 41 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 42 | We use words to give voice to our thoughts and feelings and to attempt to convey them to other people . |
| 43 | The early industrialists were proud of their achievements and liked to have them in full view . |
| 44 | Accordingly the lenders got their security , and leave to turn it into good cash if no other cash redeemed it in time . |
| 45 | Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them . |
| 46 | If , for instance , Ms Intrepid acquires a small cafe and wishes to convert it to high-class tearooms and this necessitates minor internal building works and extensive redecoration , planning permission will not be required , since the alterations are purely internal and do not alter the use to which the buildings are put , nor do they materially affect the external appearance of the property . |
| 47 | Fig 101 The wind bends at the shoreline in an offshore breeze and tries to cross it at 90 degrees . |
| 48 | And learned to associate you with that smell |
| 49 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 50 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 51 | His prick slipped smoothly back into her vagina , and continued to shaft her with glorious piston movements . |
| 52 | Although he failed to endorse ZOPFAN , from the Soviet perspective this tour' confirmed once again the Soviet Union 's readiness to treat any proposal prompted by the concern for peace and security in Asia with all attention , and to strive to ensure them by joint efforts ’ . |
| 53 | And you also see the other function of the relief road as a means of distributing local traffic er around the fringe of Harrogate er and trying to push it onto other radials to get into the town centre . |
| 54 | The glycosides are even retained as the caterpillar changes into a butterfly and help to protect it from predatory birds . |
| 55 | ‘ Well , he does n't sound like anyone I know , ’ I said , ‘ unless he 's a caddie who happened to be passing nearby and wanted to quiz me about any work available . ’ |
| 56 | To treat all women with respect , and endeavour to protect them from wrong and degradation . |
| 57 | Mrs. Twitchett , who provided the refreshments must have been unhappy , for within one month the Club changed its policy of taking all the profit to letting her have it ‘ if any ’ and agreeing to supply her with additional help at weekends and other special occasions . |
| 58 | I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events . |
| 59 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |
| 60 | " Dull for the telephone men , I 'm afraid , " I said , " but try to keep them in good heart . |